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Isn't that 2 failed supply launches in a row for the ISS?
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Genus and Jupiter looked very nice together tonight. Here's hoping for clear skies the next couple to.
It isn't often Jupiter is completely outshone. |
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Venus and Jupiter looked very nice together tonight. Here's hoping for clear skies the next couple to.
It isn't often Jupiter is completely outshone. |
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I was only saying to someone yesterday when I saw this on the news as I was with them that it's quite amazing how over 40 years ago we sent enormous Saturn V rockets with human beings on top of them into space, then all the way to the moon and back in the module a whole 6 times, not to forget a successful aborted one, with all that risk and ancient tech involved plus distance, yet here we are with a handful of quite modest and straightforward looking rockets designed to simply reach an orbit of a couple of hundred miles and not even getting close to it before disintegrating.
It almost defies common sense in many ways....unless these rockets are being done on a tight budget, dare I say on the cheap due to cutting the costs and increasing the risk in doing so. |
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The SpaceX failure was the first following eighteen previously successful launches, and the Progress failure was also a rare event - statistical blips.
But Saturn V is also a statistical blip - NASA were lucky to get away with zero losses in 13 launches, but then, silly money was spent on the programme. I was trying to find out how many F1 engines were destroyed during development and testing, and it seems to have been at least in double figures. |
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Genus and Jupiter looked very nice together tonight. Here's hoping for clear skies the next couple to.
It isn't often Jupiter is completely outshone. Get to look at Saturn as a consolation though. |
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No clouds anywhere to be seen, so very hopeful of a good view.
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No clouds anywhere to be seen, so very hopeful of a good view.
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Conjunction was just seen from Blackheath before the clouds took over, Saturn too, very faintly through the haze.
I'll upload a couple of shots when I can work out how. |
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Rosetta finds sinkholes on comet
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...oles-comet-67p |
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Getting closer to Pluto
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33369045 |
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Unusually, two Full Moons this month. Today and 31st.
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Unusually, two Full Moons this month. Today and 31st.
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Getting closer to Pluto
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33369045 http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FGfD7pbMyEs/maxresdefault.jpg
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Those four dark and evenly spaced spots are incredibly mysterious.
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conclusive proof the ancient egyptians were aliens i'd say
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conclusive proof the ancient egyptians were aliens i'd say
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Next time there is a blue moon after this month will be in January 2018, followed by another almost immediately in March 2018.
Though I don't yet know where it will be visible, I suspect it will not be in Europe as it is happening in the early afternoon our time, so will probably be visible somewhere in the Pacific area. Anyway, there should be a few more before that. |
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Guardian article about New Horizons
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Guardian article about New Horizons
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...s-pluto-charon
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The anticipation is killer.
https://giphy.com/gifs/oscar-inglour...-1tOJoYRAI4PII |
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Another image from Pluto http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33459476
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Another image from Pluto http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33459476
New Horizons map of Pluto: The whale and the donut (that's probably the first ever proper map of Pluto - soon to be improved though!) Ready to explore Pluto? NASA’s New Horizons - the fastest spacecraft ever created - will speed past Pluto on July 14, 2015, beaming back high resolution photos (and invaluable data) of the dwarf planet’s surface for the first time in human history. What we've seen so far makes Pluto seem a bit like Triton but we won't have too long to wait to see how similar they really are. |
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